Boswellia and Reduced Breast Cancer Proliferation

• The anti-proliferative effects of a frankincense extract in a window of opportunity phase ia clinical trial for patients with breast cancer.

  • 2024-01-09
  • Clinical Trial · n = 18
  • Breast cancer research and treatment 204(3)
  • • Ingrid V Bonilla Valente
    • Denise Garcia
    • Andrea Abbott
    • Laura Spruill
    • Julie Siegel
    • Jessica Forcucci
    • George Hanna
    • Rupak Mukherjee
    • Mark Hamann
    • Eleanor Hilliard
    • Mark Lockett
    • David J Cole
    • Nancy Klauber-DeMore

  • PubMed: 38194131
  • DOI: 10.1007/s10549-023-07215-4

  2 Insights on

  • Reduced Breast Cancer Proliferation

  • Moderate evidence
  • Clinical

  In the B. serrata-treated group there was a reduction in proliferation between core biopsy and excision (n=18) of 13.8 ± 11.7%. This difference was statistically significant between the control and B. serrata-treated groups (p = 0.008).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Moderate

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  2400 mg/day